Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-03-23

he was less anxious to secure rents for aome
nard landlords than to secure justice for those
good and honest working people. TCheer,. !
some landlords practised = plan of cam.
Palgn of their own, more immoral and more
deserving OF being called a swindle than va,
the plan OF the tenants. Some land agents
attempted to coerce the tenants into buyinp
under the Ashbourne act, debating the terms
OF Inc purchase and threatening to evict them
unless the tenant consented. Yet the gov.
stnment demanded the urgency for bill
giving such men power to force the tenants
10 pay unreasonable rent or to purchase at
unreasonable prices. Behind this hill ,av
another proposal, that the British tax payer
be security ii the coercion of tenant, failed
to satisfy the landlords. So it was Irish bis.
torg over again-moral wrongs pressing upon
a sunering people without legal remedy, then
Illegal rights to secure something like moral
rights, then coercion doing Just dlscontent
under the surface and exciting fiercer discon.
tent. Io ask urgency for the planning upon
the face OF the landlords was to shut the door
OF nope upon the tenant His own conyic.
ton was that there had never been a more
wanton, gratutous and unjust fl able resort to
the ever failing, ever poisonous, remedy of
coercion.
Mr.. Bafour accused Mr.. Morley of be-
slowing adverse criticisms and invectiyes
upon measure that was as vet unknow n.
Gladstone, in 1881, told the House to con-
slder not only the amount of crime but its
character and what it was aimed at. The
OIL has been forced upon the government
because the present current of crime was
aimed at the subversion of the law basis of
order. Referring TO the land legislation of
Inc late government Balfour characterized il
Qa q htpo tlt Gil,
to be introduced would make the working of
the act or 1881 far smoother and gave eQui-
table to tenants The leaders of the opposi-
ton, though now converted into friends of the
National league, knew that it was the com
hinaiion aiming at illegal ends through ter
rorlsm. What hope was there for any scheme
OF purchase it at a bidding of the league a
solemn compact entered into under the legis-
latloD OF 1881, was to be deliberately broken?
1T parliament suffered that compact to be set
at naught, the more important and serious
compact OF the settlement Of the land diff
Guilty might be broken also Every man who
wished to stop the shot of separation, would
be perfectly mad if allowed the policy of Nor
ley. Let the government have power to vim
dicate the existing law and then respect for
future Legislation would be insured. CHEERS
Although neither Smith nor Bsltour made
any explicit statement of the government
Irish measures today, an analysis OF their
speeches discloses the fact that definite pol
icy has been decided upon and fully elaborat-
ed, covering all the legislation for Ireland
that the government will ever consent to pro-
pose. The programme will then be a coer-
cion bill coDjoined with the tenants relief
bill to be introduced in the House of Lords
next week. The relief proposals will consist
OF giving the tenants power to stay evictions
by declaring their inability to pay full rent,
and wiping out the claim by surrender to
the bankruptcy court. Grand measures for
the lard purchase will follow. This measure
is now known to be based upon Chamberlain's
land scheme. 1t the government should be
defeated at any point in the development OF
their policy, they will not resign but will ap-
peal to the country. The confident tone Of
the minsterialsts confirms the general ac-
cepted opinion that Chamberlain and Lord
Harrington assisted in building the scheme.
Parnelltes are eager to fight but they find
Gladstonians reluctant to support them. In.
stead of contesting the urgency motion to the
utmost extremity, the Gladstonian whips,
without consulting the Parnellites, tonight
arranged with the government whips to divide
on the Morley Amendme nj on Thursday, thus
opening the road to the passage of the coer-
clon bill before the Easter recess. Parnel-
ltes are disposed to disregard the whips and
are arranging to continue the struggle inde-
pendently.